There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.

America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

Its not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is lets face it far more reliable than a man.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.-Miles Kington

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.

Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.