You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

Running strengthens self-motivation.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.

I don't think words reach people. Maybe nothing does

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

Walk around the right corner in Sin City and you can find anything you want.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.