We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

I'm going to find ways to make you blush, just so I can enjoy the journey.

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.