If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . . all the people who feel left out of the political process.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

I want balance in my life.

[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.