When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

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.

Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

The invincible weapon against all our enemies is humility.