Grabel’s Law

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

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.

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

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.