jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

The goal is to move the thinking that we do every day to the feeling that we often ignore and don't pay attention to.

Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness.

In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.