In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

I do not believe in karma. However, I practice it everyday because it tricks me into being a better person!

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

Start slow, then taper off

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.