Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Be stronger than your excuses.

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

Dream without fear love without limits.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.

Die with memories, not dreams.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.