We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.

Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.