When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

When somebody talks about home, you have to listen carefully so you know exactly which one the person is referring to.

I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.

Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.

And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.

this place doesn't look like my America

That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.

When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.