In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

The thing they're trying to stop is 30-million people getting health insurance. That's the substance.

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.