That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.

He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.