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.

We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again."Inaccecible.

Be kind as if life is for love and kindness.

The subject, timing and light makes a photograph, great. Greater, is the photographer when he senses these are right.

This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.