Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

The music business, or what's left of it, is obviously a very - it's like a wild west now.

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

How is it we’re the lucky ones, living a life that the children-we-were took for dreams?

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.