Travel teaches toleration.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Sevier County is a great area.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

You can’t do something forever.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

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.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.