At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Rich is the man who sees value in every person, even if there is none to be found.

I hate to go out on a limb after only one viewing, but Nashville strikes me as Altman's best film, and the most exciting dramatic musical since Blue Angel.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

Does anyone actually think that Beckham knows he's in America? I think he just follows a football and all he notices is that it occasionally gets warmer.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.