Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.