Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

We aren’t teaching our children to thrive. We teach them to survive. It’s not the same thing. Resilience increases thriving without taking anything away from others.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

I'm a boy who doesn't want to grow up.

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.