"...forever is hard enough without it beginning now."

“It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.”

Source : "Jazz Professional", Interview, 1966.

“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”

“I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.”

“At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.”

Source : "2011: The Year of Curiosity" By Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

“I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.”

“Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.”

Source : Source: espn.go.com

“In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.”

“"One of the best things about ***** legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to pay taxes and to go through pretty rigorous regulation."”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com