One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future.

Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.

Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first step that other steps become clearer.

Dare to try the impossible.

The only valid faith today is disbelief.

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.