To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

... the lawnmower sounded like bottle caps in a blender.

Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not a liberal in that sense, because i think of liberals as part of that establishment.

I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.