Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

I pretty much figure a collar will do, but as time goes on, I'm hoping I learn how to throw a suit on or something. I've still got some time. I'm not the president of the United States yet.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

I can play the leading man. I can play the action hero, maybe in just a different way. I look at it as, you know, if you set your mind to it, you can do it.

Give your mind a job to do or else it will find a job to do and you might not like the job it invents.