If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Even rational, data-driven scientists could be sent into prolonged states of hysteria when presented with evidence that their favorite foods might be killing them.

We" (your spirit guides and angels) believe in what-we-feel, you believe in how-you-feel.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.