“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”

“Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.”

“When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet”

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”

“Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.”

“Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?”

“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”

“…when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.”

“A baby is shown sitting on the floor. He appears to be about a year and a half old. Incidentally, he is a very plain baby. Strewn about him on the floor are the toys that he has been playing with. There are a ball, a rattle, a ring, a doll, a bell and a pair of roller-skates. Evidently, the candidate is supposed to be aghast at the roller-skates in the possession of such a small child.
The man who drew that picture had evidently never furnished playthings for a small child. I can imagine nothing that would delight a child of a year and a half more than a pair of roller-skates to chew and spin and hit himself in the face with. They could also be dropped on Daddy when Daddy was lying on the floor in an attempt to be sociable. Of all the toys arranged before the child, the roller-skates are the most logical. … That is my great trouble in taking tests and examinations of any kind. I always want to argue with the examiner, because the examiner is always so obviously wrong.”

“If we stand still, we're going backwards. We've got to keep moving forward and appear to be moving forward.”