You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.

My thing is to be ready to pitch every five days and give my team a chance to win.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time

I don't really think about retiring. I will retire just before people start saying, 'I knew Leonard Slatkin when he conducted well.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.