In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, and dew drops, and snail shells, and roses, and dippers, and yappers, and snappers, and noses.

He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

Every comforting word is a command from a man of action...While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words...

There is no love that is not self-love

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

If you will not stand with Israel, then I will not stand with you

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.