I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Don’t let people’s negative perspectives impact yours

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.