One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?

The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.

I actually came from the fashion side, so maybe I knew more about fashion - and music like hip-hop because I was a DJ - so it was really successful when we mixed it all up together.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow.

I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.