I come as one, but stand as 10,000.

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

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.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.