It takes three to make a child.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It takes three to make a child.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Nothing recedes like progress.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency theyre going to catch you in next.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.