Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating — these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

I wish I could score everything for horns.

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world.

He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself--it is the occurring which is difficult.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.