Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.

If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

What's tragic isn't that we can't retaliate...What's truly tragic is......being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.