Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

God always takes the simplest way.

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something that I don't appreciate at all. I learned to become a humanist and not to dwell on the differences between Jews and Christians.

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Passion is momentary; love is enduring.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.