Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don't know how they do it.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Love alone could waken love.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.