"My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command."

-- Lincoln Steffens

#Mother Quotes #Spoons Quotes #Captains Quotes

“I believe in analysis and not forecasting.”
“It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.”
“A man is as young as his spinal column.”
“It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.”
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
“A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.”
“Other people canâ€™t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others donâ€™t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”
“Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.”

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