I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

Life is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'