"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that the stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it."

"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow."