We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you – what else do you have if you don’t have hope?
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
The disciplined are free.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.
Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.
I thought of nothing else but rock ‘n’ roll; apart from sex and food and money–but that’s all the same thing, really.
First, youre going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ’em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ’em.
You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.
In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
