At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Give me your vote, Hillary Clinton says, on November eighth. And then she'll say, so long, see you in four years. That's what it is.

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

I don't wanna talk about Teo [Macero]. He's a helluva musician, a brilliant musician, but he's just not for me, that's all. I can elaborate on it, but I don't want to do that.

Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.