To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a factory. You don't do things to make them, on your own time.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

If you want the Divine to become alive within you, first of all you as a human being have to become absolutely alive.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

In times like these, we need each other. We must bond together in spirit and in service.

"Loving You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful" Hers was a gift of love, a miracle of life, For all the world to see and hear forever.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.