Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff? And somebody in the family unsacks the groceries and wants to know why you got this and didn't get that and just where is the whatever? And you want to say, 'Well, just be glad I came back, okay?' And the unpacker says, 'Well, next time bring what's on the list.'

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.