An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.