Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

I try not to laugh too loud, afraid a bark-like noise will be mistaken by any great whites lurking in the area as the distress call of a juvenile seal.

Talkers are no good doers.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down.

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

I don't think there are answers. I think there are thoughts.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .