I looked around the iTunes store and came across Dr. Moku's Hiragana Mnemonics. Thirty minutes later I had memorized all 46 hiragana. Now my 9-year-old is learning them, and having a lot of fun.

To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

Everyone's crazy except you and me.

The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...

In school, we learn that mistakes translate into bad grades. This unfortunate lesson gets burned into our brains, and we go through life shunning challenges that might end in failure.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

What you conquer within you conquer without.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

The devil sweeps people away by deceiving them, showing them a happy life only in the movies

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.