Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.

Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully.

Night gets its own way in the end. The torches go out, the fire burns down to its internal organs, and the hall is charcoal and darkness.His mind shrinks as the heat dies, a ticking ember.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

Your mom's in our business...she's in our business... Can't you see, girl, that your mom's trying to end this?

Men aren't asked about their children.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.