Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips.

I love what I am doing. I have a wonderful business. I have a wonderful television show that's doing - continues to do phenomenally in the ratings. I mean, it's been really a lot of fun.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.