Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.

For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.

Inspiration fires you up motivation keeps you burning.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.

Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.