To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

Becoming integrated and whole is the spiritual path. The body is your vehicle. Your job is to learn about yourself from your experiences and change yourself. This is spiritual growth.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.