To find yourself different than others, you must believe, behave and act differently.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

Only a coward carries a gun, a brave person never needs a gun.

Some people are in misery of carrying the entire world’s pain on their shoulders. They are called writers.

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart.

If you see yourself as a man, no one will dare to see you as a kid.

Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Power is the crown that eats the head, ”...

Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

We don't use guns because we don't have guns

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.