My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

If you think shy, you act shy.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.

It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.