The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

The truest protest is beauty.

The Christian is to take his place in society with moral courage to stand up for that which is right, just, and honorable.

Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.