Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

Mine is better than ours.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

You're never too old to take baby steps

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.