The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.

Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.