I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.
What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
A hero in one age will be a hero in another.
We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.
There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
There are those people who basically don't like those who are different. Now, that is a prejudice and it's a prejudice that's dangerous because in the world today, the world works through connectivity. It works through going across the boundaries, but faith and culture and race in a nation.
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.