Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Love is the strongest soul.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

I grew up in an all-white community.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

The Christian theory of the sacredness of the Bible has been at the cost of the world's civilization.

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.