You cannot antagonize and be a positive influence, and you will antagonize when you discipline through emotion.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

When I go into the stores, I pet the saddles. Until security comes and takes me away.

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.