You can’t win without being patient. You know why? Success comes when you value time by using it profitably. It comes over time

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.