I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.

One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better our relationship was.

It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.

Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.

That rotten houseboat turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Whether you are in an eight-hundred-square-foot home or living in a dream house on a lake, contentment is found on the way.

A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.

The essence of me, is YOU.

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.