Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye.

deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

Good things don’t happen in bulk, they take ample time. You have to have patience.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

I've loved all forms of animation.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.