You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

I'm fascinated by the whole concept of snake handling. When you read about the Pentecostal snake handlers, what strikes you the most is their commitment.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Use your love to change the world, but never change your love for any reason.

The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.

He told me that when we first met, he had said to a friend about me: “If I get that girl’s number I will never ask another girl for her number again.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.