I think I'll paint roads on my front room walls to convince myself that I'm going places

Dysfunction is a true reaction to untruth.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

I bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Only man makes Karma.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.