Take it easy, but take it.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home

Take it easy, but take it.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.