A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

One of the most beautiful words is touch

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

If a stock doesn’t act right don’t touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.