If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

We all have the potential to move the world, and the world is ready to be moved.

No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.

Be involved with the people with the live hearts, the live eyes, who are committed to something.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

When in doubt, do something.

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

My imagination and power are limitless. Nothing can stop me from achieving my dreams.

People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

My kids have become wonderful dancers themselves and enjoy teaching just as much as I do.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team.

Today's public education system is a failed monopoly: bureaucratic, rigid and in unsteady control of dissatisfied captive markets.

Hunger is good discipline.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.