The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness

His past followed him around as faithfully as his shadow.

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.