If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

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.

Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

I heard death had a name, but I forgot what it was.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

I loved working with Eric Close and J. T. Walsh.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.