Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.