I don’t know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

I just try to speak passionately about things I’m involved in and moved by.

I moved to Europe in 1948 because I was trying to become a writer and couldn’t find in my surroundings, in my country, a certain stamina, a certain corroboration that I needed.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I moved to Dallas, I started listening to whatever I wanted to listen to.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.