The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

Forget to smoke and drink alcohol. Start drinking the morning sunshine, pure breeze, and unconditional love. It is a much better way to get drunk.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

The gondola of London [a hansom].

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

We all sang the songs of peace

Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.