"Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy."

“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”

“There has to be a large number of people and routes that are lined up together. One part is liquidity and the other part is product - there's a lot that can go wrong.”

“It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.”

“Kids are like a mirror, what they see and hear they do. Be a good reflection for them.”

“You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.”

“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”

Source : Alfred Lansing (2015). “Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage”, p.11, Basic Books

“We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.”

“I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.”