All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

The essential doesn't change.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.