"Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is..."

“Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.”

“Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.”

“Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”

“I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.”

“When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.”

Source : "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.

“Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.160, A&C Black

“I will write with honesty and feeling.”