I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference who is right but rather what's right that counts.

An angry man is twice stronger than his normal.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

no matter how happy we are, no matter how much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

Don't be entitled - earn your success.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.