Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

My life is my message.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Where love is, there God is also.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

No man was ever wise by chance.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.