What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor’s blessings become a Nigerian norm?

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

When I say something, I mean it. The world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week." "And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine.

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.