Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to ‚Be Prepared‘ to meet them.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

You can’t go backward in life.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.