"Labels try to make you say what they want or write the songs they think you should write. [Johnny] Cash did his own thing."

"Government is like Junior High. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute."

"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."

"A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim."

"To remark idly is the blind man's folly."

"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."

"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."

"There are more of them than us."

"You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

"One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout."