That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

Learning to never quit and keep going is the biggest thing. I don't think it was ever an epiphany, I think that's just the most important thing that has worked for me: to keep going and keep trying.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship.