"My mantra, and the key to all my success is simple: relationships over results, always."

“I been a wanderin' Early and late, New York City To the Golden Gate An' it looks like I'm never gonna cease my Wanderin'.”

“Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.”

“As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."”

“I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.”

“Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.”

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

“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”

“Mistakes occur when a man is over-worked or over-confident.”

“You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.”

Source : "Cal Ripken, Jr. Looks Back on Hall of Fame Career, Looks Forward with New Book, 'Hothead'". "On the Record" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2011.