"Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human."

“There are not a ton of people buying cars - cars are expensive. So people usually go for the cheapest car they can get. And if the price of gasoline falls again, it makes the savings that you get with an electric car harder to realize.”

Source : "The Electric Car Strikes Back?". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 2, 2011.

“If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.”

“Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.”

“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”

Source : Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”

“You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.”

Source : "Netanyahu: Iran's nuclear weapons a 'threat to the peace of the world that must be stopped'". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. March 7, 2012.

“The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.”

“You should write, write, write every day, and learn to edit and pare it right back so you're proud of every sentence, and each one is either being useful or beautiful, but hopefully both.”

“To ask the proper question is half of knowing.”

Source : "LIFE" Magazine, (p. 73), September 8, 1958.