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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.