Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.

Life is a manifestation of the fundamental laws of physics, and in its highest form, life manifests the fundamental laws of physics as a human organism endowed with a capacity for moral judgement.

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

My problem is not that I don't want to play, it's that I don't want to live!

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.