However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

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.

Leadership. A gun to protect or a gun to kill. Your choice.

The time is always right, just act.

A little caring, a little love, and a little kindness can give you joy and bring enduring happiness.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

How can I tell the signals and the signs By which one heart another heart divines? How can I tell the many thousand ways By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.