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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
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“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”
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“If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.”
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“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”
Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009. 
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“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”
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“I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”
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“Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.”
Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Desmond Dilg (the joint pseudonym of Arthur Desmond and Will H. Dilg), 1903.
