"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

“What I said Wasn't wise It wasn't even true I apologise”

“You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.”

“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”

“Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.”

Source : "Langley Schools Music Project Innocence and Despair" by Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. January 6, 2002.

“One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

“If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.”

“No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.”

“It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage