Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.