I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.

Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything

Relationships for women are more than taking off the clothes and wearing them back. It is about attachment of emotions, and feelings, but on the other hand, men are like fast and furious.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.