Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

All men desire to be immortal.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.