what a life would be if i could just live in the mountains dense with greenery, sit by my window and read my favourite books.

Life is better with a partner.

Violence is as American as cherry pie

Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

The most difficult thing for people to do is hear their own soul.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.