When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.