Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Thought is free.

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

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

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.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

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

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The day of individual happiness has passed