Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Every word was once a poem.

Adversity is the adventure of time.

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

Some say we can't choose who we fall in love with; love chooses us.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.