The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time.
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
Wisdom of the Ages "Car Commercials" One of the last times you're ever gonna see that overpriced s-box not stuck in a traffic jam.
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.
I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.
Real popularity is taking the time to love others, reaching out, and never being afraid to be the first one dancing. REMEMBER THE GIRL IN PEARLS.
One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.
Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
If you love someone he or she will love you back one hundred percent of the time.
Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
