Al Goodman Quotes

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

Man becomes what he thinks about

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Humor is a universal language.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

TV is the best babysitter.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes.

Go where there is silence and say something.

People who are against hate are not a fringe minority, not even a silent majority, but are a silenced majority, silenced by the corporate media.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

You can do and have and be things that people once said that's impossible for you to do and have and be.