Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.

One good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

A jet plane cannot mow the lawn, but it can fly to distant destinations. Don't worry so much about what you can't do; just do what you can as only you can do it.

Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.