Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone love you.

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature.

Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love.

[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.