“Life is a strain many times; if you do not know how to play it well, you've lost before you started.”

“Every little thing you do adds up and before you know it you've created your life. And how you create your life ripples out and affects everyone and everything that crosses your path, known or unknown to you.”

“However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.”

“Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.”

“It's like a supply and demand thing. It's like 'Well, this is what they want me to do, this is what they want to hear. So I'll do more of this, cuz this is great… and they love me.' Suddenly people start giving you money as well. So then you've got money and you get used to this lifestyle. And you don't wanna take any risks 'cause they've got you by the balls, and you've got all these little things that you've bought, or you're attached to. And you start spending all this money… And that's how they get ya!”

“Consider all that you've gone through, all that you've survived. And that the story of your life is done, your assignment complete. How many good things have you seen? How much pain and pleasure have you resisted? How many honors have you declined? How many unkind people have you been kind to?”

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

“But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?"
Yes… the same age you will be if you don't.”

“I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?”

“I don't know how it is that you start working at something you don't like, and before you know it you're an old man.”