Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Sunlight is painting.
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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Moonlight is sculpture.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
