I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Don't panic and carry a towel

For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Men who love women are loved by women