I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end it may not be good for my health but it definitely helps.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Frontiersmen good and bad gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future have been my camp companions. Thus I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Ray Bradbury is for many reasons the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be should be and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible willing to tolerate and to teach happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

Ultimately America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.