Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

You mean old books?""Stories written before space travel but about space travel.""How could there have been stories about space travel before --""The writers, " Pris said, "made it up.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger

When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.