If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry but then I won the award for physical training.

From my music training I knew that some Spanish rhythms apart 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace and the people whom they represent with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs urging them forward to war.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Choreography is mentally draining but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I run in the morning lift weights in the afternoon basketball training at night and then lift weights again at night.