OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing.

Faith is the deepest and truest form of magic.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

You don't wear stuff for other people; you've got to wear it for yourself.

[Congress] and their cronies secure more than one hundred billion dollars in corporate welfare

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.