Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Jim Rohn

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

Kedar Joshi

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.

Carmen Sylva

With the world's fate resting on your shoulder - you're gonna need someone on your side.You can't do it by yourself any longer - you're gonna need someone on your side.

Morrissey

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Kevin Kelly

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

William Devane

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!

Allen Ginsberg

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Ray Charles

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Charles Osgood