"Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language."

"There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake."

"I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure."

"You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us."

"By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet."

"Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure."