In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The future ain't what it used to be.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.