I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

A persons limitations are only measured by their drive to succeed

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.

I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.