I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.
I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
Sometimes in the great soundtrack of our lives there are no words, there are only emotions; I believe this is why God gave us classical music.
I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
