Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.

The young don’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.

The closer you get to your past the sooner you realize it was never present

Democracy is about the dialogue

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you.

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.

I cook anything but chitlins.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.