Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.