Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Time discovers truth.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

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.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

We cannot learn men from books.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

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.

We are wiser than we know.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Life is a song to me.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

I believe time wounds all heels.