The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.