The past cannot be regained although we can learn from it the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.