“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It’s kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don’t even have to like your music. If you’re big enough, people are drawn to you.

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.

I’m a big wuss, and not the king in the least. My wife is.