We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

But this is how some get lost in the race of life, they spend their lives judging how much they will do or how much they should do based on what everyone else around them is doing.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.