Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text