An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Work hard as if there was no God and trust God as if you have not worked.

O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

Personality is a mask you believe in.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.