One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

I'm not going to be lectured to.

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.