And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

All excellence is equally difficult.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.