Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.
Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.
With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.