And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

I think humans are only capable of small moments of honesty. Then they get tired and back away. It's something to foster, this ability to keep it for longer. How to keep being honest and aware.

Only in a place like this do earth and sky come together in such a way that they bridge into one, and in such a place a person could put up her arms and find herself in heaven.

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Israel is near and dear to my heart

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.