I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

If you get your mind right, you get your life right.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

You need to have time to really hear God.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.