Benjamin Quotes

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.

We need to reorient people in terms of what real success is all about.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Confidence came from people. I think I'm very confident in me, as a human being.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

Small things affects small minds.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.

The expected always happens

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Everything in this world depends upon will.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.