I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

Life and situations will never improve to the point when living a dream becomes most conducive...honestly

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

History-writing is not a visit of condolence.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.