The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

The dream is for a distant time.

With grace, you will succeed despite strong opposition.

People come and go.

Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.