I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

She was a genius, my mother.

Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.