Failure is no accident.
I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.
The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.
You, and only you, choose how you feel.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
I didn’t just come in on a load of turnips!
I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.
You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
[Moving to the West] was a culture shock. I had never seen cereal before! We had cottage cheese and pancakes in Russia, not colorful circles that came in cardboard boxes.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that dont really matter.
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.
You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.
