Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.

Music communicates with the soul.

The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all

Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

I am loved and accepted exactly how I am, right here and right now.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.