And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I love the sea.

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.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

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.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

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

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

There’s no formula.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

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

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

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

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Where love is, there God is also.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.