We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.
Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward. . . I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
Do the knowledge, meaning: look, listen, observe, and also respect. If you do that, you'll have a strong foundation to build anything you want to do in life upon. Know before you do. Look before you leap. And if you want to follow in my footsteps, make sure you step in the ones that went in the right direction.
Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.
I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.
After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.
Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.
I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.