For Every Child We Teach To Cherish Learning, A Universe Is Born.

Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

It's hard to pay attention to those who don't believe in you, when you are busy attending to the daily demands of your goals.

Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.

Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

When you really dive into the scriptures it says the kingdom of heaven is inside you. You can feel that because of the way Christ dropped it.

This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.