Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [. . . ] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?
My ambition is that I have the best players who can collaborate with each other to form the best team in the world.
Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.