Fear comes with middle age.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.

If the sun isn't shining where you are, be the sunshine where you are.

My favorite thing about L.A. is the sunny breezes that mimic the mindset of the energy in the people.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

If you want peace, work for justice.

I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.