True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

I put a lot of pressure on myself, but I also have what I call an X-factor.

Virtue has needs of limits.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

It's interesting that in searching for monsters to play you often end up playing leaders.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.