More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.