Life provides the substance for poetry we just have to put it to paper

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.

Because the sun helps you in the day, do not scoff at stars at night.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

Don't pretend like you know me 'cause you shook some neighborhood tree and got a li'l rotten fruit.

It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

That's always been Guillermo's preference, is to have as much there practically as is humanly possible, and that digital graphic images are more a punctuation mark than they are a replacement.