I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.
Dont go through life, GROW through life.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people say about your work.
The people change, the common denominator is you.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
Imitate, assimilate and innovate.
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Work like you dont need the money, love like youve never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.
