Quotes on Inspiration

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.