Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Dare to risk public criticism.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
I am not now That which I have been.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Once you label me you negate me.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
