“The team takes on the identity of its top payers… I don’t want to take anything away from the Capitals offensively.”

At the same time, preparation is important to playoff success.

We’re going to be the best in the league at something. We’re deep in anthem singers.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice – anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

Don’t be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.