God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.

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.

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

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.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.

... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight

Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.