I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

Our home is a belonging place.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.