Your Quotes

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Where's your will to be weird?

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.