Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

An idea is salvation by imagination

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Once you label me you negate me.

A lie never lives to be old.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

That which costs little is less valued.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Effective action is always unjust.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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.