I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long.

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got.

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.

Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.