We tend to overlook goodness, but we must put goodness front and center in our lives.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not

But Grandmère is just like all those other women who go around wanting the same rights as men, but don’t want to call themselves feminists. Because that isn’t “feminine.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.