I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.

The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is too short to make just one decision, Music's too loud for just one station, Love is too big for just one nation, AND GOD IS TOO BIG FOR JUST ONE RELIGION...

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

Don't settle for something that's not great. Don't feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.

Every single soul is a poem.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.

Thoughts are roots

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.