They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.