When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

Kindness is the sacred act to transform lives.

Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting