Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

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

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

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.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.