“A sign of advancing age. You start obsessing about how much you have to get done in the time that you have left.”

“As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past.”

“Maturity is not a matter of age. You have matured when you are no longer concerned with showing how clever you are, and give your full attention to getting the job done right. Many never reach that stage, no matter how old they get.”

“you don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

“They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.”

“The thing I like about having a company is the academic side. Then you forget about the academic side once you`ve done the administration and you start creating.”

“It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”