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“As far as entertainers, I know I'll sound like a cliché but they don't make 'em, like they use to. Barbra Streisand is one of them, also Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The first theater voice I heard on a record was Ethel Merman and again, they just don't make them like that anymore.”
Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008. 
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“Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.”
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“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.”
Source : Sylvia Browne (2009). “Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.”
Source : "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, dl.acm.org. December 1974.
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“A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.”
Source : "Open Letter to President Wilson". Book by Ben Salmon, October 14, 1919.
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“So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.”
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“Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”
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“I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.”
