I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from the brutal gamble of the world and the wicked ways of men.

Every morning, whether I've slept or not, whether I've made it through the day without crying or given in and sobbed in the shower, where no one can hear me― the sun comes up, and I make my choice.

Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.

I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts and uncles), living as boldly as they want to be.

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings