To be somebody, you must last.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family.

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.

Rarely does a candidate think ahead and take the time to understand what the hiring company's priorities are, and then carefully presents himself as a 'solution' to the company's existing gaps/needs.

It's one giant Bowflex commercial covered in booze vomit.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

I truly believe that music is the most powerful thing we have.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.