History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

to have great pain is to have certainty

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.

This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

I respect everything I make fun of.

The more you love, the more you crave.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.