“Music makes an otherwise ordinary activity quite enriching.”

“The best music is that which subtly connects with your reality but mischievously transcends you into an enticing imagination.”

“Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.”

“God does not stereotype. Each of us is made magnificently unique.”

“I cannot imagine a truly beautiful world without courtesy being integral to its culture.”

“Enrich the world with your presence.”

“Enrich the world with your presence.”

“The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!”

“Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.”

“Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into...”

“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”