"Success is the best builder of character."

“You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32”

“Every tub must stand upon its bottom.”

Source : "The Man of the World". Comedy by Charles Macklin, Act i. Sc. 2, 1781.

“If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.”

Source : "My Dinner Party Nightmare" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.

“I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.”

“Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

“Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.”

“I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.”