The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative

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In serving the poor, one serves humanity.In serving mankind, one serves equity.In serving goodness, one serves God.In serving the Creator, one serves himself.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

My "home" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.