If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all

Life is a gift, love opens it up.

And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.