Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else.

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.