I USED to have seizures when I was young. My MOTHER and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they COULD with what LITTLE they had.

It's not always been a HAPPY MARRIAGE. I guess I WANTED a quick FIX.

I ALWAYS THOUGHT I should be TREATED LIKE a STAR.

In ART and dream MAY you PROCEED with abandon. In LIFE may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Everybody wants to be FAMOUS, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and EVENTUALLY it'll pay off. It COULD be in a year, it could be in 30 YEARS. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, OFTEN courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always STRANGE. And in a way, every social ACTION is a NEGOTIATION, a COMPROMISE between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

In prayer, we stand where angels BOW with veiled FACES. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our PRAYERS ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and NARROW, contracted faith?

Leadership is solving PROBLEMS. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have STOPPED leading them. They have EITHER lost CONFIDENCE that you can HELP or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

A GOOD LEADER TAKES a little more than his share of the BLAME, a little less than his share of the credit.

A LIBRARY is not a LUXURY but one of the NECESSITIES of LIFE.

The important thing is to TAKE your TIME and not GET STRESSED.

You would THINK that American educators would want our kids, especially our kids from poorer families, to hear what top-rated Oxford students hear. But you'd be WRONG. American schools now hide their students from ideas LIKE mine if they don't approve of the man or the MESSAGE.

We're overpaying him, but he's WORTH it.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of THOUGHT or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our DEATH brings no PLEASURE on the WORLD.