“Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.”

Fame is a Bleet, man.

By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

I’m one of those people you hate because of genetics. It’s the truth.

The woman is the reflection of her man

Yeah. And it was too much of what you shouldn’t be doing instead of what you should be doing. I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. It drives me mental.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Any love involves loss, and that’s the risk you take. And the greater the love, the greater the loss. I certainly feel that now with the woman I’m with, and the children that I have. But whatever the course may be, this time together is extraordinary.

Do you know how you tell real love? It’s when someone else’s interest trumps your own.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I’m capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and that I’m responsible.

Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.

I’ve been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all.

I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.

When we love all parts of ourselves, when we bless all of ourselves, when we honor all of our history and all of our insecurities, doubts, worries, and fears, we become the women that we always wanted to be.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation’s historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I’m tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

History’s long arc is different than the today’s headlines.