Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

When the knees are not often bent the feet soon slide.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.