Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

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.

I make music for ears, not eyes

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

In those days food was never just sustenance

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.