It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.
Power is the goal of religion in general.
When something is over, it is over.
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate. . . Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You. ' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.
If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.
My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.