A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

51 years ago, when Hillary Clinton was working on the Goldwater campaign, Bernie Sanders was getting locked up for my rights. 50 years later he's talking about doing something and not talking.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

Stand up and walk out of your history

Oh you two look delicious," Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go!

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.