Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

We make art so that we can feel life. We do science to understand it.

Your ego decides the humanity in you...Higher the ego lesser the humanity....

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.