Bobby Darin

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Join the dance.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

Now I’m a warrior.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.