Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. 

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops. 

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The upright stand alone and fight while the conspirators need a group to dislodge them.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. 

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.