Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar

When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future !

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

You can write that it's because I still like Justin. Sexy back means sexiness. Did Strong Baby give off the same sexy feeling as my song now? I write it according to the feeling I get.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.