I was trying to disturb the war.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.

God exists. He has one wicked sense of humor, and right now he’s having a grand old time punking the planet.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?