I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'