Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

My pa maintained that there are three important parts to a man. You got the heart, the brain, and the python.

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I do like to wear the same hat on game days, but I consider that more of a routine thing than a superstition.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

I do not fear it: I have been there.