I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Nothing can justify war.

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Samsara is mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is mind turned inwardly, recognizing its nature.

A mans health can be judged by which he takes two at a time pills or stairs.

People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.

After Plan Colombia came the Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Hillary Clinton opposed the treaty when she was running against Barack Obama in 2008 but then supported it as secretary of state.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.

We definitely have a hardcore following.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I've read the 'Public Enemies' script and, no, it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that, I am both excited and quietly relieved.

My niece, my little princess you totally rule my heart. In the story of my life you are the best part. Your sweet smile and magical ways bring happiness in my life and joy that stays forever.