I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

You would never know if you could ever be, If you never try, you would never see.

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

Chief Keef scares me... not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

Making your moves, paying your dues, chasing the cool.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends.

He took a deep breath. "I'm a dragon, Samantha." "Oh, my God." His lips twitched. "Even when I look like a man." "A dragon, " she repeated. "Yes.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

I just have a sense that Obama's not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming America into something other than how it was founded.