Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.