I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life.

Guy Lafleur

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

William Blake

Ojalá te encuentre por aquí, en alguna calle del sueño. Es una gran alegría ésta de aprisionarte con mis párpados al dormir.

Jaime Sabines

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S. J. Perelman

[Growing up] is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Madeleine L'Engle

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

Proverb

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Giovanni Falcone

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.

Kesha

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson