I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The world is a wheel always turning.

But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.