Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
And where the deepest current crawls Like thistledown the dainty fly falls. Then from the depths a silver gleam Quick flashes, like a jewel bright. Up through the waters of the stream An instant visible to sight As lightning cleaves to sombre sky A rainbow rises to the fly.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
As much as we stereotype the women, we do it with the guys. The guys are all good looking, not too many ugly superheroes. They’ve all got their hair gelled back. They have got perfect pecs on them. They have no hair on their chest. I mean, they are Ryan Gosling on steroids. Right? They are all beautiful. So we actually stereotype and do it to both sexes. We just happen to show a little more skin when we get to the ladies.
Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.