If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

The more you live, the less you die.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love.

The culture of power versus the power of culture, ” he quoted. “One side always loses.

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.