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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
Source : "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005. 
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“For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.”
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“One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he cant blink. Which I think probably helps.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”
Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
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“If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.”
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“Id like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change peoples lives.”
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“Everybody that knows me knows I have a temper.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Keep a secure home base.”
