“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Ever step you take is forever.

If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.

Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has.

Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

We know we’re coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

A man without words is a man without thought.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it’s damn near impossible to turn this around.