Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

I am a big fan of[Barak] Obama.I'd like to lie on the ground and have him walk over me.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.