If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time to pursue them is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

I don't really see a need to retire as long as I am having fun.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.