What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big.
There is nothing so stable as change.
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure.
Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
I just don’t hear anyone else making the music I’m making in my head, so I’ll have to do it myself.
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
You don’t write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and ‘load every rift’ of your subject with ore.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
May you stay Forever Young.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards.