As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

You know it is a broken society when people fear each other more than they fear wild animals.

I wonder why the vast majority of humanity fears the truth and the unknown.

Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day.