No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

We all draw breath and life from the same source of creation.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

We lose thousands of our fellow Americans every year to opioid abuse.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

You got to be yourself, you got to discard all the bull and get YOU across ... and get what you have to say across.