I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Every night is different, a ball of thread that unrolls differently.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Beauty is to recognize how full of Love you are. Sensuality is to let some of that Love shine through your body.

I don't trust words. I trust actions

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.