A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.

I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that's the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

My God, to read without joy is stupid.

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

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To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

You don't have to be angry, you don't have to be too cool for school. You can just have a good time and dance like no one's watching. Just enjoy life.

Money has no religion except itself.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

I'm not squeezing the balls. That's not part of my process.