The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Never be afraid to take a moment to think.

Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.

I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

For me I look at a group like Queen or AC/DC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.