I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.

Hope is a pillar of faith. It is pillar which holds our desired dreams.

The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Who's started has half finished.

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.