"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working"

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"

"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine"

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation"

"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers"

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled"

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter"

"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from"