The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.

Hawaii is a small, close community.

If I could do something with Paul McCartney it would be just amazing. Or Eric Clapton.

Rekindle the flame within the soul.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

It's a thin line between paper and hate, Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights, Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come, Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.