"If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again."

“I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.”

“A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.”

“Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.”

“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”

“Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.”

Source : "GOP representative would ban dirty words from TV / Ose angry FCC failed to act when Bono, Richie used f -- word" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. January 9, 2004.

“I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.”

“Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.”