It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.
I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.
It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.
The main thing is to race over to McDonald's to get an egg McMuffin before they shut down for the morning.
There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
The most gratifying thing, with no question, is making records.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.
If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
There's no such thing as a passive audience.
The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism)
The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.
There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.
Poverty - the one thing money can't buy
