I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

South Africa is a country built on possibility. Possibility lies in making a difference and creating value from a situation - without denying that certain issues exist.

I want to be remembered as a passionate professional and compassionate human being.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.