I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

Don't ever let your day end in "could haves" and "should haves." Life is meant to be one experience after another. Say yes to everything that is good for you.

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and they'll - we'll get together, we wanna get the right stuff.

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible force called music.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.