Death's but one more to-morrow.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

I do believe that 2016 is going to be a great year for Democrats... because we are right on the key issues.

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.