Erratum. In my article on the Price of Milk, 'Horses' should have read 'Cows' throughout.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

When I look at you, you know what I see?"I met her gaze, finding it suddenly hard to breathe."I see the guy who saw me when no one else did, " she said. "That's what matters to me. That's who you are.

The oppressor is never as free as they think they are

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire.

I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want to be a barricade for [Iran's] nuclear facilities.

Love is a pleasing but a various clime.