Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I do not have 3,000 pairs of shoes, I have 1,060.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.