Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.

I just want to thank everyone for their support. Sometimes friends need the help of their friends to get by.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

There's nothing like a love for our children. I love being a papa, and that's the truth.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Any idiot or imbecile can easily make enemies

While a kind man was working up the nerve to ask me on a date, I was working up the nerve to kill him with my bare hands

The human interpretation of a disability is a primitive departmentalized view of ignorance.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

The only way to find out what you know is to call upon yourself to know it.