Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?