People demonize me; people idolize me; everything I say and do has been scrutinized.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh.

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

There is no short cut to truth, no way to gain a knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of scientific method.

God may delay, but He always comes.

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.