One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

I think I am example for our scene, so I have to be an example for the rest.

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.