I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

That which is timeless is also the most timely.

Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

No court can make time stand still.

Time is the school in which we learn.

Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.

I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.