Why does everyone make fun of New Jersey? It's beautiful here, " she said."We live in America.""What does that mean?""People like to judge without knowing.

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Your subconscious is your best friend