If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

I believe it all. If I seem not to, it is only that my joy is too great to let my belief settle itself.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent.