You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light

Talent is a word lazy people use to explain why they can’t do things.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

When I heard Grateful Dead music, I knew that it was the most powerful force on the planet.

Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!" Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.