African proverb

When the music changes, so does the dance.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

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.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

You gotta do what you love and really believe in it because that is your truth.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

You are the daydream I am supposed to have for the rest of my life.