We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.

Challenges prepare us for something greater! Only when it's done with love, can this greatness change us and fulfill our highest good!

If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.

Cinema for me only has meaning when it has a relationship with what I see outside on the street.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Brittany and I don't date other people." "Why not?" "It's called being boyfriend and girlfriend.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.