I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

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.

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps, 'mercy', but I wasn't certain of either.

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.