R- THE DON Quotes

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

God without Christ is no God.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

One person's tattoo is nobody else's business

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.

I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

When Eddie Gray plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

When you're 18, you're just so busy being scared and having fun - a crazy mixture - that you never thought of dying.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

You call it madness, but I call it love.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.