The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.