Suicide is not criminal. However, a failed attempt at it is. I wonder how someone will so much fail in life to want to take his own life and still fail at it.

A good education must expose knowledge gaps and increase the hunger for further inquiries.A good education is not complete.

Underachieving people, use little chitchats had with successful people as gate passes to obtain entrance into places their reputation cannot get them.

One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance.Yes, money.Whether it be women, minority groups etc.Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.

The greatest and toughest part of learning is unlearning to learn.

Hate and envy are like a bomb that cannot destroy anything without first destroying itself.

It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Raised during Reagan, suffered through Clinton

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Barack Obama is not the kind of guy we want in the Oval Office leading America. We do not want somebody who doesn't like his own country, for whatever perverted, convoluted, stupid reasons.