A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Love one another (His last words)

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

Times change, and we change with them.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.