You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part.

Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, and life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.