One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true

The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'

A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'

I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.

And when you're needing your space to do some navigating...I' ll be here patiently waiting to see what you find

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.