Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

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

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

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

Ah just act the way ah feel.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.