One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

God's grace is the power for greatness.

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

God receives little thanks even for his greatest gifts.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.