Your best is good enough.

I just trust in God, work hard, and focus on executing.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.