The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Take care of yourselves

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.