Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.