The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany.

Death, like virtue, has its degrees.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

I really wanted to focus on my songwriting, or songwriting with other people. I wanted to go learn from other people who were really good at the classic, more traditional idea of songwriting.