Joseph Baretti

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

I think; therefore I am.

We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship