A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

It's not like I feel like I've accomplished nothing, I just have to forget about what I've accomplished and just accomplish more.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.

If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil.