A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.