"In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined."

“I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.”

Source : "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

“People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.”

“I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.”

Source : "General Peter Pace". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. November 7, 2005.

“Do not follow where the path may lead.”

“I would hope to think my fans are full of attitude, are a bit vicious, and always fight for what they want. That's exactly what I'm going to give them.”

“Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.”

“In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.243, Hachette UK

“The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress.”