Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

God's Law is holy, righteous, and good.

Believe what you see with your eyes

I sit beside the momentThat stares at silenceBefore anything could happen

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

Today you have to run faster to stay in place.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.