If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

It isn’t the fall that will kill you, but the sudden stop.

I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.