"As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day."

“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

“There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.”

Source : Hal Holbrook (2011). “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain”, p.64, Macmillan

“There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.”

“For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.”

“A gentleman can live through anything.”

“It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.”

“I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.”

Source : "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.