Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

Bad music can make you weak.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.

Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Musicians communicate in other ways. That's just something you rely on.

The ethics of peace is liberal

It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

It's called 'falling in love' for a reason: it does not have to be forced and cannot be planned. It just happens naturally, and if you're lucky, it takes you by surprise.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

In fact, it’s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?"