I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

Women are natural anarchists...

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.