This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?

Old marketing was dictation... new marketing is communication. Change from Convince & Convert to Converse & Convert!

Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.