The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

If it respected religion, Israel would have transferred these synagogues back to its territory.

The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.