"Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that! But it might."

“Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.”

“I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.”

“I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.”

“Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.”

“I only ever run when there's some point to it - say, if it's in a game of tennis.”

“At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.”

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”