An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.

A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Mans vanity transgresses death

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

We believe world peace is inevitable.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.