So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite safe. I'm in control, liberated and free, when I'm on my bike.

Apparently, I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama does with mine.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I just love playing in major championships.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.