You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

You possess other people's...bodies."He accepted that statement with a nod."Do you want to possess my body?""I want to do a lot of things to your body, but that's not one of them.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

I can't spare this man, he fights!

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

If you date someone who isn't very good-looking but makes you laugh, you will never forget it.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

We prepare for success by acquiring virtues.