The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Please lift your snowy skies off my soul -Your diamond dreams slice through my veins

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.