Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

What is more terrifying-- the things we imagine or the things that are real?

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.

We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.

The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.