Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.

Look at their eyes. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

I think we can be reasonably confident that if the American population had the slightest idea of what is being done in their name, they would be utterly appalled.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

I work without commercial considerations.

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.

The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.