Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.