Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.

It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.

The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste... [Source: Project Runway — but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

The artist by his work is known.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

I try to make myself happy ... because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy, and my shareholders are not happy, and my customers are not happy.

I don't feel old, except in the morning once in a while, when I can't turn over properly and say, "What's that? When did that happen?" Our brain doesn't accept that. We're geared to last.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around