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I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day.

I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is - the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way - there are no real rules.

When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.

I love music of all kinds, but there's no greater music than the sound of my grandchildren laughing; my kids, too.

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

The quality of all your current relationships is a direct result of how you feel about yourself.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.