Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are. ... You are very important.

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.