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 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

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 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.

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.

We fail to open the right doors because we fail to pick the right keys!

What I cannot love I overlook.

...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

Do you know how hard it is to kill 30 million people? It's a logistical nightmare.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,.

We should all start to live before we get too old.