Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.