Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.
He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
I've been like this forever. I'm sweeter, probably, but me and my homegirls were a little buckwild, ya know? And it only got worse.
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Strong feelings are fine; it's the overreactions that mess us up.
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
You'd have to get my money out of my cold dead hand before I gambled it away.
I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.
