People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

If you can not be a poet, be the poem.

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

Never, EVER give up. Not ever. Not EVER. Ever EVER!

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

Everything is legit onstage. You can go crazy. I can express my anger. I can cry. Whoa, this is the coolest place!