Know this: you can start over, each morning.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.