"In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment of every government, and cost $130 million dollars. By 1977, smallpox had disappeared."

“All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.”

“Kids have awkward moments.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 22, 2004.

“Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.”

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”

“It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.”

Source : "Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2013.

“Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.”

“This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

“I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.”