Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

How I love David Bowie.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

What one fool can understand, another can.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

There’s no formula.