When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

The principle of God is love

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

There shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.

Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.