Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Creativity is a clashing of opposites.

I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

He spends the majority of the evening in the company of Celia Bowen, whose elaborate gown changes color, shifting through a rainbow of hues to compliment whoever she is closest to.

Poetry is the memory of language

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Hillary's [Clinton] got some problems with Millennials.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.