The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

All the best performers bring to their role something more something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

When you do something best in life you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at you feel like you have to be something new.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it don't eat it.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East you just do the best you can.

The promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms and to confide in one's self and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say 'Well look something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched you are enormously fragile.

I don't know why it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it since it's fundamentally emotional.

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right we can modify it as we go along.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for you best find somethin' to die for.'