Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.
The greatest feeling of accomplishment for me is the fact that I was an athlete who was somewhat disabled.
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.
My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me.
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
I will greet every person who comes to my workshops and seminars.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
I've remained in touch with more than a dozen descendants of Gremlin Special survivors, victims, and rescuers. I treasured my friendship with Earl Walter Jr., the lead paratrooper who jumped into the valley to protect the survivors.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
