“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth’s air.

When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.

I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.

The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

My writing has a lot of surprising twists.

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

If I’m going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don’t have it here. If you’re not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that.

My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes.