Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.

The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Whispered words can be devastatingly effective.

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.