Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

There are two types of sufferers

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

Fear usually benefits the feared

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

My baseball career was a long, long initiation into a single secret: At the heart of all things is love.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.