Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it. . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?
Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.
Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.
Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.