No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Jealousy destroys the Moral competence to be Successful

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

All true religion must stand on true morality.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.