When you get to be 95, travel doesn't come as easily.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.