"The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world."

“If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.”

“As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.”

“I don't live in Hollywood. I don't have celebrities as friends. I like them, but I don't pal around with them. I just live in the Midwest, a real normal world.”

“I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.”

“There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.”

“I don't have a girlfriend, I have a dog.”

“We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, 'No.' We can go to a secluded spot and chant our mantra. The mind will become quiet by itself.”

“Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293