I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.

I dream ...of a world where we can commit our social resources to the development of human life and not to its destruction

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Democracy is the best revenge.

It's quite difficult for me not to be able to return to my country, but in my country justice has been murdered.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

you ever have that feeling when you step down onto a footstep that isn't there?

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.