The less you blame others the more you will succeed.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.