Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Nothing is black or white.

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.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.