Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That's all magic is in the end, you know.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Passion does not compensate for ignorance.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.