There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air.

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

Computers are not accountable. People are.

[Opera] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

See your road through.

Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's no big deal.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.