From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight.

I am dead man alive.

O rose, you look sick.O rose, wake up and sing.

Nothing shakes the smiling heart.

I am a dead man alive.

I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

Sometimes your mind can imprison your body and can put your body under some constraints. There is only one way for your body to be free: To free your mind!

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.