Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.

Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.