Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.

It started to rain and we just sat. Sat and watched the rain in silence.

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

If you think you’ll find intellectual stimulation, you’re thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I’ve never been more bored by casual chat.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.