Lyndon Baines Johnson

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.

You never miss what you’ve never had. I never had any other life. I didn’t know any other life.

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

We have only started with the development of our country-we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface.

Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

Wide awake and so confused.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.