"I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always."

“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”

“The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.”

Source : "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant". Chicago Tribune, December 2, 1988.

“Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.”

“If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility.”

“You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.”

Source : "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

“LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.”