"It feels much more natural to move forward and grow with the instruments I've grown accustomed to. Piano, accordion, brass, ukulele."

“My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.”

“Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.”

“When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.”

“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”

Source : Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.4, University of Pennsylvania Press

“Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.”

“I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.”

Source : "The 3 Most Important Factors In Weight Loss" by Brett Hoebel, www.askmen.com.

“Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.”