You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.

The US needs military/defense, economic, and social strategies. A medium-sized business, by contrast, is normally best off focusing its efforts on a single crucial objective.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

To decide to quit on yourself, is to be willing to settle for the pain that comes with every big regret.

That's another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.

In Paris one could have the eyes of a cat (as he did) and tell people it was a trick of fashion.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.