“Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

You never understand anybody that loves you.

You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.

The first draft of anything is shit.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don’t know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

Too many times I’ve reached into shallow wells searching for acceptance, and too many times my bucket has come empty.

Hold on to the ones who accept your rainbow as well as dark skies.

Friendships exist in the fluctuations between acceptance and rejection.

I accepted all of you – except for the vital part, that couldn’t accept all of me.

Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.