Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

You love God by showing love to His creations

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

Michael Jackson is everywhere. I can't not listen to what we did because it's everywhere. I listen to it all the time whether I want to or not.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.