I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

A good book is like a stream, with which we can flow slowly, playfully, it lets us savor the joy of weaving the magic of lovely thoughts, revealing the secrets of life with beautiful words.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.