"I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one"

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"