I always did well on the essay questions. Just put everything you know on there, maybe you'll hit it.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.
The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
We first fought. . . in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.
The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.