I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his heart where there was nothing but hollowness, yet it felt heavy, almost as if someone still resided there.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

This universe is a fan of you. Watch the flowers in the morning, how they open towards the same sun that spends it's whole day following you.

I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.