I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life. . . though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
A shared life is a great life.
If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.
Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.
It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.