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

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.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

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.

I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

Why the congress, president, supreme court justices & government are all exempt from Obama care ? Basicly they are saying "Do what I say and not what I do. Is that is a dictatorship ?

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden.

We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.