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“Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.”
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“Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.”
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“Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.”
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“You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.”
Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005. 
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“It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experiences for signs of results. Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition. Your life will change as you become more loving, but not in ways you can exactly predict. What happens is not important as how you react to what happens.”
Source : "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment".
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“We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered god out of our schools, and communities, the military and public conversations, you know we really shouldn't act so surprised ... when all hell breaks loose,”
Source : "Mike Huckabee: Newtown Shooting No Surprise, We’ve ‘Systematically Removed God’ From Schools" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.
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“Objectivity? I've always had an objective.”
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“The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.”
Source : "Aasif Mandvi's {ldquo}Today's Special' opens festival" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. March 07, 2010.
