One of my goals as a professor of English is to teach students to recognize and think critically about what makes something art.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

Most of our problems today are not that we don’t know, but that we don’t know how to put things together with the right zeal and grit to get something noble and leave noble footprints!

Flowers have to stretch to bloom.

McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

Only when we stop holding others accountable for all of our troubles can we truly be free.