I'll always be poor in my mind.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

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

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

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.