Richard Brautigan Quote

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influ...

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fum...

It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thu...

In life, growth is imminent. And, growth without change, is unthinkable. And, to make the unthinkable thinkable, new roads need to be carved out by way of old ones. The old stands tall and firm and be...

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your fa...

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.