The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black.

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.

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.