In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.
There are very rare occasions when you get a good wicket to bat on, but whatever wicket you get, you have to play at least 20 overs for your side.
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.
When you walk around, you have all this stuff rattling around in your head, things that have happened to you, things you have read. Life is just life, and you get what you get out of it.
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.
Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
When you're not able to play ball anymore, you see who's really there for you. I would say that God works in mysterious ways, and He gets rid of your friends for you - the ones who were never really your real friends.
