You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Guard your heart:Mysterious things happen in there.Stand as the watchman of your soul, And be careful about what you let in.For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!

Love is more than feelings, yet feelings are important. Love is more than words, yet words are important.Love is a commitment to do, say and be the best you you can be for someone else.

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a foolWorking at something that that doesn't look cool.Never mind if people mock you from their stoolWhen you are enthroned they will drool!

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

Perseverance is persistent insistence.

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.

I'm a pessimist, so I find everything limiting.

I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

People called me "Slim" and "Daddy Long Legs." My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.