I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. - Clara Bayliss

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

Fragmentation is like classful addressing - an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing that people are captivated with the illustrations in a story.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.