Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.