Children ought to watch pornographic movies: it's healthier than learning about sex from Hollywood.
Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it. . . Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'
Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others -- both animal and human -- rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.
There are no failures, only quitters.
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.
One cannot rest except after steady practice.
You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.
This (functional - E. W. ) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies or absorbs the transcendent vocabulary; it does not search for but establishes and imposes truth and falsehood.