There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

None is so rich as to throw away a friend.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

Bill Clinton and I are friends; we see each other on the speaking circuit. He likes to be visible. I don't. And I draw no judgment either way.

There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?