You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Begging for help never gets you any.

Trust me, there's not one night a week I'm not in a theater somewhere. I adore theater, and I go out with friends, so I do have some nights off.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

People sing each other's songs and they cultivate standards. That's the reason why we have folk music and folk stories. History is told through song.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Don't look back, over your shoulder! Keep your eye on freedom shore! Because you know the brave man with you, also pays for the wages of war.

A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy.

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

You are your best thing

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.