"Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?"

“What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?”

Source : Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.114, Spiegel & Grau

“The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.”

“It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun, I love changing up my hair.”

“If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.”

“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”

Source : Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

“Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.”

“I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.”

“You have to live the mission... love what you do.”