I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Being free is a state of mind.

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

The pure action is the grace of prayer.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.