But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

You can forget Stalin, ” he said, pledging his allegiance. “We’re not the History Channel.

One must undertake everything with utter, fanatical determination. Or one will get nowhere.

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical."

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I'm naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

If we're not careful we spiritualize laziness.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.