"I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people."

“Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.”

Source : J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.332, Kregel Publications

“I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.”

“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

“I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25-but still look fabulous together.”

“Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”

Source : Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

“Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it—two power—crazed magicians killed, a hundred power—crazed magicians saved…”

“I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.”

“I would have conversations with European artists. Meaning, people look at my painting and one person would say, "Oh, your painting is just like so-and-so!" Another person would say, "It's just like so-and-so." But at the end, it's a chain of relay like a marathon. There are so many so-and-so's that eventually it becomes mine. My dialogue was completely European, with the '40s, '50s, '60s artists, but on the exterior side I do big painting. It's post-Pollock. It's current. It's a meeting of the time. The Chinese side just comes out.”