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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist.

I work 90 hours a week. I work 5 to 9, it's not 9 to 5.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they're stomping on the floor yelling "New York Knicks" - that's a great feeling.