How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.