Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
There was light born on the darkest day, but no-one wants to know, and no-one wants to Cry
Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.
I will go on shining, shining like brand new. I'll never look behind me, my troubles will be few.
Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical. . .
You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.
I must have my share in the conversation.
When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.
Diogenes said once to a person who was showing him a dial, "It is a very useful thing to save a man from being too late for supper.