There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

You might find me cleverly clad, in black on black, at 28th and 7th Ave.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

I think better when I'm not sober

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .