Nobody can go back to how it was. The dust bowl dried us all up bitter as seeds and spat us out all over the land and none of us yet has taken root.

Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

Great ideas without some consistent actions are nothing but some creative thoughts in one's mind.

We all pay for our choices.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.