If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Read a short story every day.

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome, " George confirmed. "It really was, " Jack said. "His head exploded.

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.