By indignities men come to dignities.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

I had a different upbringing - my dad worked three jobs. You know, it wasn't as easy as they had it.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.