To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback -- it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.

A general's principal talent consists in knowing the mentality of the soldier and in gaining his confidence.

Let the path be open to talent.