Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.

You don't realize it and that is why you hate who you are. You are living as someone else, so you unknowingly destroy that image everyday.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

I wanted to be a teacher.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

If you want to have more, you must become more.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Big government flourishes under Republicans.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.