The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic.
Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary.
Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.
It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
You can't get away from who you are I guess.
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.
I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
