No one can keep you down except yourself.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

It's not the method, it's the mindset.

Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.

It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

If you look for problems, you will find problems; if you look for solutions, you will find solutions.

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.

Love is the fingerprint of the soul.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.