But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

What if, when we are feeling less than happy, we were prescribed two genuinely inspiring experiences each day?

That’s all kids want to know—that you love them.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

A man without a home can't be lost.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.

Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.