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.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.

For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

The man was absolutely beautiful. Vampire. Warrior. Whatever Shan Quesada was all man.

The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.

You wake up in the morning; what do you want to know? You want to know what happened overnight. You want to know if you're safe. You want to know if you're family's safe.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.