Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.

Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

Making the simple complex doesn't take ingenuity. Making the complex simple, now, that's ingenuity!

Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

It all boils down to the music. That's what causes longevity.

Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

My mother was independent. She had grown up in Dalton and Pittsfield, in western Massachusetts, and she was one of the first women drivers in that area.

When you are young, you often think that the world spins around you. You think you can do anything, can take the world on your shoulders.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.