You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

The unexpected always happens.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.