You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

Beneficence is a duty.

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.