Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

Music has been in our family for generations.

I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.