It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

It makes one realize that the physicality if our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.