When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
I don't want to get rich - just live good.
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.
Revile those who flatter you.
What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.