Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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.

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.

The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

'Deadwood.' I could have watched that forever.

Hundreds of social networks and websites such as Facebook and Twitter are trying to weaken people's morale and decrease their participation in the elections.

I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.