You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Action is the antidote to despair.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

When a particular function of the mind does not work well, it shows how effective the brain is when it does.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.

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