The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

With the birth of my first child and my involvement with my first husband, I basically stopped lying. I just didn't want to lie anymore, because it reduces the stature of the person you're lying to.

Focus on the WHY of life and not the HOW, remembering that where focus goes, energy flows.

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

Making a film is so scary, and there's such a kind of void that you're working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as prepared as possible, but you're also still bringing people together and saying, 'Trust me,' even when you don't necessarily trust every element.

On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'

It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hijacking the King legacy. Uncle Martin and my father, Rev. A. D. King were blood brothers. How can I hijack something that belongs to me? I am an heir to the King Family legacy.

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well being of our countries.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race creed and color we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.