Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Happiness can be as close as your next thought.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.