Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.

Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem

Life is an unfinished art, few master it, most just bark.

life is unfair, if you are weak, tour out

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.

The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

Whatever you do, don't do it.