All across the world, people are loyal to their tribe. --- (Pirio)

But a bond is a bond. And when you’re young and haven’t yet learned to live in your own solitude, even a destructive bond can seem better than none.

Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.