Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Would he find her?Without question.Would he save her?Always.

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

Living a lifetime is experiment.

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.

I want to be better at staying connected.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

I don't think immigration is what's happening in our country. I think an invasion is what is happening, particularly southern border.