Get there first with the most men.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.

We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

I done told you twice already goddammit no!

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

Repentance restores your relationship with God.

If I end up having a novel that sells really well and that allows me to pay for health insurance and mortgage without having to work at a day job, that would be great.

If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.