In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.