When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Love is a song, written in your heart.

Somethings can be so simple but bring happiness

You have to feel your own personal truth with a little ‘t’ – your sadness, rage, frustration for example -- in order to get to the Truth with a big ‘T’.

I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

Beauty is a social necessity.

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.