When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

Each lost day has its patron saint!

I want to look good when people see me.

We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the office, you need to create a virtual boundary that didn't exist before.

I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.