I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

I love watching people listen. And on film often some of the best moments if you think about favorite moments on film, often the person isn't even talking.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.

Fidel Castro was loved and hated passionately.