Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.