The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.

The problem is that we are humans.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.