I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.

Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.

You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.

To still your mind, first still your tongue.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.