We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

The most important lesson in managing our careers as we get older: Sometimes staying the game is as simple as not leaving the room.

The soul of Dr. Mrs. Lailah Gifty Akita is the spirit of light and love.

The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.