Harry Chapin

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

When in doubt do something.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

When in doubt, do something.