“Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.”

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Give yourself no choice but to succeed. let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.