In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

You will be a failure until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

A man can fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For me it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

In my experience it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging especially for fathers.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth yet until we have felt its force it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it in loving detail with an intelligent and responsive class.