I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

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.

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

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.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed:It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

No great thing happens suddenly.

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.