Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more