Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

We make time for what's important and what's important should include what we love. One life worth living!

I can't be passionate about something that I don't understand. In my music, I feel that's why people can connect so well with it because it's all honest.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.