There's no nobility in poverty.

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.