I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

The greatest adventure is soul seeking.

So, ” said Zia, “you’re gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?

Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

It is easier to be grateful for the things we have than to the people who have helped us get them.

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.