"Let your greatness bloom...." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.”

“Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.”

“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.”

“You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

“If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.”

“There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.”

“...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.”

“A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.”

“I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.”