Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibi

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

Good things are not necessarily God things.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took over the years.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.