Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life.

Religion became the evil of our society when it started to teach resentment and hate instead of unconditional love and wisdom.

The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

I would never remake something that was like "The Godfather." Things that are truly important to me, I could never remake or reboot, or whatever.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

I do love fish, and I thought it was healthy without understanding the high mercury levels that fish like tuna, swordfish and halibut can contain.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.