When you're drowning you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me ' you just scream.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1, and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

With me poetry has not been a purpose but a passion.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich, I want you to acknowledge that in America we all should have to pay our fair share.

We didn't execute. Tonight they stepped up their pressure.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world, whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

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