Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

don't make me throw my boot at you, because I will, you grumpy high testosterone driven male

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.

[I like to cook] Shepherd's pie, which is a classic British dish. But my version reflects my Jamaican roots, because I add jerk to it as well.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.