More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.

You cannot do only one thing.

My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.