I think with true passion you can do so much more than you think is possible.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America.

The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

When you do something just because it is needed, you involve yourself totally without it meaning anything to you, then action becomes liberating.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

I think it's important to always offer something new.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.