We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest.

I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am. Against the daily death the iconography of wings.

There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.

Proud meaning that... proud means we have to be one till the end eh? Till the end we have to be proud?

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.