No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.