Joan Baez Quotes

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Action is the antidote to despair.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.