I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

G. K. Chesterton

Music is your guide.

Billy Corgan

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Victor Hugo

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

Nicki Minaj

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Mahavira

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Jimmy Buffett

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

Gael Garcia Bernal

You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

Kahlil Gibran

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Ernest Hemingway

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Alice Hoffman