The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.