In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

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.

The beauty of life does not reside in certainty or conformity. It resides in the infinite possibilities of uncertainty.

A star does not compete with other stars around it

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.

The audience went from hating me to loving me to hating me to loving me. They probably would have f - ed me then rewarded me, f - ed me then rewarded me.

The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.

The idea of blaming alcohol or drugs or quote-unquote "promiscuity" is a false path. The real issue is that men should not hurt women.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.