You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

You can't change what happened. Just like you can't change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything.

I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.