A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

The world is not a problem the problem is your unawareness.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

When the flower blossoms the bee will come.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

Grammar which knows how to control even kings.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

I tremendously enjoy getting involved in a troubled situation and straightening it out... My interest would be if there was a situation that came up, and I thought I could do something with and the price was right, I would be interested.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.