A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Err on the side of awesome.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

The living need charity more than the dead.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

I always try to make my things happen.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.