The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

It’s not possible to stop love.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.