Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.
For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.
When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.