You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

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.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

I think we need to take a step back and realize what the real issues are - it's not being from different places or being different.

Tantric Buddhism means that we become mature adults and we learn the reality of chaos theory.

Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.