Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.

No generation can escape history.

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

Lying to the American people wasn’t part of my job description.

Remember, Nick, there are only two people in the universe I care for…and you’re not one of them. (Savitar)

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.