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I have thousands of opinions still – but that is down from millions – and, as always, I know nothing.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

Author : Ben Kingsley

I’ve dodged bullets but there’s no scandal in my life.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Author : Voltaire

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

Author : Keith Emerson

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Author : Voltaire

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Author : Jeremy Irons

My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Author : Pablo Picasso

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

Author : Ben Harper

If you’re a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

Author : Keith Emerson

A lie cannot live.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn’t and had to learn everything.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Author : Ansel Adams

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Author : Khalil Gibran