If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Country music has to evolve in order to survive.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Peace in ourselves, peace in the world.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.