No matter how many levels of consciousness one reaches, the problem always goes deeper.
I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.
Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.
There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.
. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh. "
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.