The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.

Creativity's about ownership.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.