The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun.
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream. . . Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.