Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

Don Mattingly

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fuller

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Eric Hoffer

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

Brian Eno

You can't live your life through your children.

Carl Lewis

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred A. Montapert

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Elbert Hubbard

The eye is easily frightened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

Steve Jobs

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Madeleine Albright