I hate when being kind and silly is mistaken for weakness. Then I have to correct them and it's a lot of hassle and I can't be nice to them again.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Faith has wings.

Devote yourself to self education.

Give your decision never your reasons your decisions may be right your reasons are sure to be wrong.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.