The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

Property is theft.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Anarchy is order, government is civil war.

Communism is not always equality but it is more so than property is. In communism inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

When you meet someone for the first time thats not the whole book. Thats just the first page.

In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying, it is about concealing. I like flawed characters that people relate to. I would never do a romcom.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

I'm still getting used to changing earrings - It still feels really weird to be pushing bits of metal through holes in my earlobes that weren't there a few weeks back, and actually seeing and feeling the holes in my lobes is still a bit freaky.

I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.

Building design isn't trendy.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Think and grow rich.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.