"I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language."

“The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.”

Source : Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5

“I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.”

“A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.”

“Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.”

“I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.”

“The opportunity to perform. It's just the feeling of anticipation and then once you're in the middle of it - you get in the zone. That's what you hope for.”

Source : "Actor Lenny Jacobson: On getting in the zone, vulnerability, and preferring chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.”

“How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?”