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Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.