No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.
The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.
When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.
Words may inspire but only action creates change.
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.
The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
Ah, you fight like a sissy demon. (Takeshi) Sissy demon? Have you ever met a sissy demon? (Savitar) I killed three this morning. (Takeshi)