You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.