For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.

To walk on the road is a journey; to sit under the tree is a journey! Everything we do is a journey to somewhere!

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.