The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes, and every book is another keyhole from which you can gaze.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

All's well that ends better.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.