You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago–will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow?

You can surrenderWithout a prayerBut never really prayPray without surrenderYou can fightWithout ever winningBut never ever winWithout a fight

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence — I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and...

What you own is your own kingdomWhat you do is your own gloryWhat you love is your own powerWhat you live is your own story

excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted “rest in peace” sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements,...

I WROTE IT ON THE CAN

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

It’s a test of ultimate willThe heartbreak climb uphillGot to pick up the paceIf you want to stay in the raceMore than just blind ambitionMore than just simple greedMore than just a finish lineMust feed...

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them....

Lessons taught but never learned,all around us anger burns.Guide the future by the past.Long ago the mould was cast.

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will...

You don’t get something for nothingYou can’t have freedom for freeYou won’t get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dreams might be

You can twist perception, reality won’t budge

And the men who hold high placesmust be the ones who startto mold a new realitycloser to the heart.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness… imperfect, and incomplete.Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

Well, I know they’ve always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/

i was “far and away”-riding my motorcycle along an american back road, skiing through the snowy Quebec woods, or lying awake in a backwater motel. the theme i was grappling with was nothing less than...

Live for yourself — there’s no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more

Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand

Who brought me up to know better…