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Lifestyle Quotes


"Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere."


"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."



"Becoming drunk is a journey that generally elates him in the early stages-he's good company, expansive, mischievous and fun, the famous old poet, almost as happy listening as talking. But once the destination is met, once established up there on that unsunny plateau, a fully qualified drunk, the nastier muses, the goblins of aggression, paranoia, self-pity take control. The expectation now is that an evening with John will go bad somehow, unless everyone around is prepared to toil at humouring and flattering and hours of frozen-faced listening. No one will be."


"This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here."


"Your morning routine generates a 10x return for good or for bad. Make it good."


"Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool."


"Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth."


"Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that."


"We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do."


"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."


"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."


"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."



"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."


"Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it's at."


"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."


"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."


"Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top."


"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."


"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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