That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

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.

Beware of fascist feminism.

The lack of information is what makes one go to the desert in search of some seafood.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.