But it turned out you couldn't run from your past. It always found a way to track you down.

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.

If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.