Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

A well trained person needs only a knife to survive.

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

Our kids are going to be so angry with us one day. We've charged their future on our Visa cards.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.