humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Something terrible happens to people who don't create, something poisonous. Creating is a necessity for all humans, like breathing. If you don't do it, you suffer.

When he touches me, the sky and the earth switch places.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.