I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.