Money is a great dignifier.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

What molds us is what maims us.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!