Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

I feel like I'm on cloud nine right now.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

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