The way you perceive your Self is what enables, or disables, you.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

The desire for knowledge begins with searching and seeking.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else!