A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.