Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

I've been watching battle rap since that time period when Cassidy was hot, Murda Mook and Lux first when at it. That was a very pivotal time in hip-hop.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

Every day has its emotional difficulties. I miss my mother whether I'm singing her music or not.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

When would he realize that it wasn't his infidelity I couldn't bear, but his cowardice?