The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.