I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

There is no perfect condition so now is the perfect time and today is the perfect day to take action.

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign.