Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree, The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-tree.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

Only you can allow yourself to be angry.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Maybe I need somebody that could save me From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.