R- THE DON Quotes

Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate... He could start by spending 27 years in prison.

When you give away a little piece of your heart, you're giving away the only thing you can give away, which, after you do, you got more left than you had before you gave some of it away.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

You know what's funny to me? Attitude.

If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it. That's the point.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.

Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Have character, don't be one.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.