"I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being."

"Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best."

"Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships."

"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed."

"Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

"What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times."

"If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength."

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. "

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'"

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

"Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it."

"By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy."

"See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

"Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth."