“Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.”

“Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".”

“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”

“If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.”

“I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.”

“'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month i...”

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

“One of the great Confederate combat leaders, General John B. Gordon, had sat at his horse and spoken farewell to his men. Some he had seen weeping as they folded burnt and shot-pierced battle flags...”

“What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”

“And each one there has one thing shared;They have sweated beneath the same sun,Look up in wonder at the same moon,And wept when it was all done,For being done too soon.”

“funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story”