Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Courage is found in unlikely places.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I really have no interest in myself.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.