People do not start off stupid, they grow to be stupid.

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

Hope' wins over 'Experience' every time.

When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.

You are the illusion, be anything you want to be!

The saner you are, the crazier you are.

Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.

I do not take advice from people who are 100 percent sure. I take advice from those that believe they are as close to sure as possible, but understand they could be completely wrong.

Hope wins over experience every time.

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not be able to live with the guilt of having stolen something.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.