To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.