Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.
You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret. . . if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.