My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

May you discover your sacred-self.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

I'm going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care.

If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.