I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Europe is made of history, America of philosophy, Asia of prosperity, and Africa of opportunity.

Dont you know if you keap getting a head of your self youwl jus only fall over your self when you get to where you are going?

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy.

Your soul should be as strong as possible when it leaves here for whatever comes next.

Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.

I would also love to visit the Asian countries soon.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.