It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.