A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.

Happiness is surrounding yourself only with those who bestow their unconditional love and support.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses.