I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

Peace is a conscious choice.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again

Relax ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything. It is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up which is in greed.

Faith is a kind of knowing it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful of that Im sure. There is a God there is intelligence there is consciousness. And behind all of this there is incredible compassion.

I am the hawk and theres blood in my feathers but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.