Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

Deep spiritual affection is divinity of two souls but oneness in spirit.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

When you win your first Grammy, it's true, you really want to thank all the little people.