Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

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.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.