I lived and languished.

I lived and languished.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

We hate our squalor.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

My body gets weak without truth.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

I have a trend of my own.

Busy remaking the world man forgot to remake himself.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.

I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.

My people are from Haifa.

Music is like the soul of the planet.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

If only mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.

We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.

Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied.

I know now that its really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

Entertainment is temporary happiness but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.

When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.