God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here. ' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly. '
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.