Larry Bossidy

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.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

When you have the right script for your life, you will always be the star of the show.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

You be the clouds above, I’ll be the grass below, and everything in between will be where our love will grow.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

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.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

Life is like improvised jazz. We cannot regulate all the variables. We must play it with panache and flair as best we can.