“While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.”

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.

Insanity is contagious.

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.

You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.

Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Rise above principal and do what’s right.

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

So far as I ever observed God’s dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Honestly, it’s hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.