There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.
Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
If you don't play to win, why keep score?
Don't throw the ball before you have it.
To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.
I'm fortunate to have some really great people around me, my fiancee being one, my parents being another. Over the last couple of years, I feel like I've figured out the importance of continuing to learn and the development of the brain and how the brain hooks up with the body.
I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.
When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.