Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

The earth is but one country and Mankind its citizens.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

The more things you do, the more things you can do.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.