[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.

Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.