..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

All the Creator's children are blessed with gifts. We are all given special skills to assist each other her, including animals, plants and insects.

Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

Hillary Clinton is for sanctuary cities. She's for catch and release. She's for open borders. She's actually considerably to the left of President Obama on the issue of immigration.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.