...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.