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There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however, whether, because of this danger, you should refuse to practice such a beautiful virtue as charity.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

The health care problem is not solved in the white house, its solved in YOUR HOUSE

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Regarding the accusations of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, deplorable and disgusting as those abuses are, they are not so harmful to the children as the grievous mental harm in bringing up the child Catholic in the first place.

It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.