The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.

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.

Beauty is the manifestation of love.

I am the happiest soul.

Donald Trump didn't go to Vietnam. He said he had a medical problem. He got a medical deferment. Now his doctor says he's the healthiest man alive.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.