The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

I wish you a Merry Christmas sparkle with endless love, gladness and goodwill.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

No stream rises higher than its source

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.