All truth contains an echo of sadness.

If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.

Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.

You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate trading, or trading in mixed activity, or whatever. Well, who gives a

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.