A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

You must fight to invest your time into producing products and added value to your generation.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.

Don't be afraid to question. Don't be afraid to get fired. Don't be afraid to be wrong.

The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.