Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Give your choice a chance

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

Once you're inside the ring, a fight is a fight. Fans can't fight for you, the hometown crowd can't fight for you.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!