God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse people would marry for good.

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.