You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I like children - fried.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.

I get asked all the time how much sleep I get. That's what happens when you write a book called 'The Sleep Revolution,' travel around the world talking about it, and found a company committed to ending our global burnout crisis.

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

Private dreams are the most powerful. You have to dream of success to make it happen, and if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. But that doesn't mean you have to go around telling everyone about it.

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

Most days, I have a slice of toast, then lie in a hot bath for an hour to get up a sweat. I have a sauna at the racecourse and then go and ride. On the way home, I might stop at a service station and have a bar of chocolate and a Diet Coke. And that's it, basically.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.