An ENERGETIC MAN will SUCCEED where an indolent one WOULD vegetate and INEVITABLY perish.

After FOLLOWING the FOOTSTEPS of the greats, each SINGER must carve out his own IDENTITY, else he will perish.

You can't perish because of your own FEELINGS; you have to EMBRACE those THINGS as an ACTOR because it's PART of your palette.

In 1957, I DECIDED: WRITE or perish.

Thousands of people perish in the Straits of Florida EVERY YEAR. We UNDERSTAND it WITHIN the context of the Cuban reality.