The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Do not Speak for Anyone.Just let them know their Right to Speak.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt.

She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.

Attraction is an evil. It takes you to the wonderland that doesn't exist. The exit becomes tough, then.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Yech," said Simon. "Don't 'yech' me. You're the one with the magical spit.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire