I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

I am a farmer singing at the plow

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

What is love after but trusting in the unknown.

As long as I can be with you, even my digital heart will start to throb. Like a quantum wind, my heart will start to sway.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!