You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.
Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.
She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.