There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.