"Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings."
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"One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful"
"I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it."
"If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?"
"Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together."
"The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness."
"Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination."
"Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory."
"In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music."
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering."
"You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless."
"The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality."
"It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally."
"The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."
"How would you like to feel the way she looks?"
"Go, and never darken my towels again"
"My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."
"But what makes wage slaves? Wages!"
"Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket"
"I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge."