My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

As long as you invite faith, courage, and perseverance to become your daily companions, every test would inevitably mature into a testimony in your life.

What does it mean to be alive?

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.