Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!
Don’t make me put your head in my blender!
In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.
Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.
You have to know how to defend yourself.
What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.
Children have helped me a lot.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.
People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
