As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side.""I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.

You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you willrealize that nowhere seems like home anymore.

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

New places always help us look at life differently

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.