God first, family second, career third.

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Humankind above all is lazy.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

The world wants to be deceived.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.