The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

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.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.

The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.