The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.

All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself.

I have loved and lost in so many different ways. And I have died endless deaths… So when I ask myself, the question today, who am I? My answer is…I do not know.

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny.