I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.

We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.