It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

Friends are Gods apology for relations.

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

If we do not hang together we will all hang separately.

When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

To reap the benefits of GMO technology, the U.S. must ensure that decisions about our food system are made based on science, not innuendo.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'

Those whom we have loved never really leave us. They live on forever in our hearts, and cast their radiant light onto our every shadow.

The struggle for Financial Freedom is very unfair. Just look at the rewards.

Adequacy is sufficient.

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.