The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

A clever person solves a problem

Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others.

No one can sad listening to Frankie Valli.

There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark.

What allows us as human beings to psychologically survive life on earth with all of its pain drama and challenges is a sense of purpose and meaning.

There's never an end for the sea.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!