Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

The gospel is the Good News of God's Kingdom.

Imagination is an endless possibility.

Is racial violence is the answer for happened racial violence? Which planet am I? Where are the people who taught me there is no difference? Why?

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.