If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.

The weak have one weapon - the errors of those who think they are strong.

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

We have enshrined in our founding documents and promoted the fundamental truth, all around the world, that the rights of all men, women and children ,not simply Americans come from God.‎

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.

A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.