Rusty Wallace

Credulity is the man’s weakness but the child’s strength.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

If you really understand Zen, you can use any book, even the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

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.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

I’m constantly reemerging in my life.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.