But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel.

To be honest, makeup is a big part of what I do for a living.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.

I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.

You know, I go around the country a lot.