Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

If youth only knew, if age only could.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Escape from the cage of beliefs Spread the wings of love, Now fly in your sky of imagination.

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.