Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Plans become Platitudes, if you don't have Passion and Persistence to Execute them!

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind”.

I don't ever wish I was somebody else.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.