If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

We have to do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.

Today is my anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. Please pray for me and all priests.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.