If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends.

Time is the raw material for creation

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.