The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.

The difficulty of being a Latin kid, a Latin man in this country [U.S].

Sometimes people just see the overall success and it overshadows our true love for music and how much we love to record. I love to record music and I love to see the reception of it even more!

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.