Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go.

if you did not make a mistake, then you have not try anything new, then you did not live at all.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

Peace on earth and good will toward men - that is something we need to work on. Like Nelson Mandela, we should learn from him.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.