A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Alchemy. The link between the immemorial magic arts and modern science. Humankind's first systematic effort to unlock the secrets of matter by reproducible experiment.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world not an escape from it.

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things happen. Dont be afraid.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

Golf is evolving, every day, every shot.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Less is more

Some people say you are going the wrong way when its simply a way of your own.

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law.

Television and I grew up together.

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.