Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs