But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.

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.

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

Peace starts within. We are what we give.

. . .the home place is the safe haven, the convergence of waters, the place where the beloved dead are as real as the living.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

I use my fame now when I want to help a cause or other people.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.