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My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

My music is - there's no litmus test, there's no political litmus test for listening to it - but I am never going to compromise one iota to satisfy with someone who's uncomfortable with the ideas I feel in my heart.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn't. The second just outnumbered the first.

I love room service!

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.