Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

I have always been interested in innovation but I was never able to find innovation inside of disciplinary boundaries.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.