[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Chop your own path. Get off the car track

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

We need to increase our military spending. We need to deal with a no- fly zone in Syria, a safe zone.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.