It’s terrible to lie in chains, To rot in dungeon deep, But it’s still worse, when you are free To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing

your beauty always overpower everything that is anything less...

I am a happy soul, despite all life challenges.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

I've crippled more people than polio.

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.