People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.