If at the end of the day the people of our city escape, it will be good.But if somehow our democracy remains standing - it will be even better.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off." "Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Work hard and be authentic. Everything else will fall into place.

If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.