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.

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.

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.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

A mind possessed by unmade books, unwritten lines on empty hooks.

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

When someone is running for reelection in Texas, they're not looking for votes in California or New York.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to salvikalpa samadhi.

Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

There will be a few people who will resent the fact you have to be online to play a single-player game. But it'll change.