Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

I want you to know， it isn’t always clear in the beginning because as I said I had been on television since I was 19 years old. But around ’94 I got really clear. So don’t expect the clarity to come all at once， to know your purpose right away.

The poem is an act of the mind, not a transcription of the world.

Ethics isn't a barrier to progress—it's a guide for responsible progress.

Even if I fall down 100 times, I will stand up 101 times.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

The love of democracy is that of equality.

Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.