I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

So, what you’re basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.

I'm so well-rounded I'm almost spherical.

Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.

I only think well when my mind is calm.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.