If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

Do not seek to control other souls.

Life is greatest sacred existence

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect.

John McCain is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue the same policies over again? Hey, I believe in recycling but that's ridiculous.

I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

I should have drunk more Champagne.

I'll never be a weightlifter.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.