I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.
Man is not himself only. . . He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources. . . He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
As I walk. . as I walk. . The universe. . is walking with me. . Beautifully. . it walks before me. . . . Beautifully. . on every side. . . . As I walk. . I walk with beauty.
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
I'm always on a red carpet. . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland