Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

The Spirit of God is not something less than God, - it is God.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

We don't have enough money to rebuild our own country if we're rebuilding everyone else's countries.