The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.