Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

A person who knows spiritual principles will walk confidently in God’s path, to fulfil what God has already planned to do

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Sometimes inspiration just requires looking at things from a different point of view.

The genius. This is a skill to interact with outside environment, or source.

Love is something that never goes out of style.

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.