You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.