If you have to improvise, you have to be well prepared.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
What can you get for a dollar? You can get piss and paper
My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school anymore.
Age is not an obstacle. It is a limitation you impose on your mind.
Of course, I have nothing against the language changing, but there must be reasonableness in it, so that it does not become a mere gas can. On the other hand, new words are sometimes added that I wouldn’t do without – for example, “smug”. It’s my new favorite word. It’s a wonderfully oily word, a precise word that covers a certain type of person with a high degree of self-confidence in their own abilities.
Idleness is the root of all art
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Football is a fairly simple sport. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans win!
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
My biggest beauty secret is to be happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I think a lot of how you look has to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the secret of beauty.
Sometimes you need to let go of everything – cleanse yourself. If you’re unhappy with something… whatever it is that’s dragging you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self, comes out.
When my parents went to Knoxville for work, I stayed with my dad’s mom. She was strict – the type to stiffen up and iron dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I entered the house with my hair pulled out, the ribbon off my dress, dirty as heck. I always got spanked.
I don’t think you should think too much about the fact that time is passing and you’re not a teenager anymore. Then you just get plagued and get even more wrinkles and look even more grumpy and sad.
I’m called the poorest president, but I do not feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God…I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.
Set the bar high for your goals and don’t stop until you get there.
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.