The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

The heavenly Father first forgive us our sins for the love of fellowship.

I do have insecurities. I don't know if you can tell. I'm not brimming with confidence.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.