The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

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.

Money cannot buy friendship.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Dreams can be dangerous things.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

What do you possess if you possess not God?