As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it...It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.