Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

The philosophers talk across the centuries exclusively to one another, hermetically sealed from any influences derived from non-philosophical discourse.