National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

I like to kill my enemies and listen to the lamentations of their women

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

People like nonfiction presented to them in a certain way, so that they don't have to think about whether it's true or not. They like it to have that imprimatur of respectability, of genuineness.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

The lasting legacy of the Cooter Smash is that I'm the first to know when it's going to rain. That's right. I both sing and predict the weather with my hoo hoo.

Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness.