...but sovereign borders will mean Water haves and have-nots.

If you call that music real noise

I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alongside others who care, and to make a difference.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

What doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

If I hear one of my songs by anybody, it's a dream come true every time for me as a songwriter, because I want to write a song, I want to write a song that the world can sing and will always sing.

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.