Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

One man gathers what another man spills

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all Beings.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart