As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in.So, I'm concerned about peace.I'm concerned about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.