If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Being afraid is the worst sin there is.

Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word [criminal] out!

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.