“My biggest regret is sinking in places I should have swam.”

Only humans have the tendency to break something and be disgusted by the pieces.

At the end we all settle for peace.

It’s okay, not many have the courage to love you.

Every storm started with just a little drizzling.

People who feel like sunshine have walked more in the rain than basked in the sun.

I will always be a fire, with or without somebody igniting me.

The best thing about being a writer is you get to write your endings.

Tell how you feel, that’s how it sets you free.

My dear, Don’t be scared of love because what broke you back then wasn’t love at all.

If your pain hurts them too, they’re your people. Keep them.

I’m not saying I don’t miss you it’s just that, now when I do it no longer hurts.

Chase someone who doesn’t run away from you.

A love too much will either give you a person for life or a lesson for life.

I’d fight for love but just don’t let it be a compulsion.

You can be kind and still refuse to tolerate what people put you through.

The easiest thing to exist, love. The most rare feeling, love. Irony?

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.

There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.

But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They’re stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.