Good writing is always new.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.