When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

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.

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

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.

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

I don't know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.

God is always at war with sin

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.