Ray Quotes

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.

A life's work should be based on love.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

Adversity can strengthen you if you have the will to grind it out.

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

I didn't know what we would be selling in the year 2000 but whatever it was we would be selling the most of it.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor.

And little blondie says, I want to be like him. I doubt it very much

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.