I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

Don't think you're living when you just exist!

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.