Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.