I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.

It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Faith is the union of God and the soul.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.