“Violence begets violence, you know. And you can’t kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We’d have to kill off the government.”

The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

It’s weird not to be weird.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

Don’t hate what you don’t understand!

People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.

I don’t believe in yesterday, by the way.

I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

You may say i’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.

Remorse begets reform.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I think work begets work.