I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

Do not approach with anything even resembling assurance a restaurant that moves.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish.

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

Great men have always had dogs.

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.