What makes something better is connection.
All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.
When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere.
The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.