The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Success is simply a state of mind.

If only people valued people and not money…. I've been on a journey of truth and realization. I wonder how many lessons I got to learn.

It is always some consolation in sorrow to feel that it is shared, and any burden laid on several is carried more lightly or removed.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.