I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Confident people tend to evaluate their opinions alongside those of others and then follow their intuition.

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

A short axe can still cut down tall trees.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.

I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.