Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.