Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.

We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.