For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.