Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

I now have my final resting place, Your eyes.

What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me.

A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.

You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.