He who has never tasted jail Lives well within the legal pale, While he who's served a heavy sentence Renews the racket, not repentance.

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

I have selective hearing.

The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.