We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

it isn't that we're alone or not alonewhose voice do you want mine? yours?

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

An antisemite used to be someone who hates Jews; nowadays an antisemite is someone Jews hate.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Success is getting to a point where you'd be truly OK with losing everything you have and starting over.

We are all here on earth to help others.