Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.

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.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

He was all of those things, of course, but none of those things.

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.

The message I wanted to deliver to those battling with depression is to know that they are not the only ones, it is not easy, but you can come out of it and help someone else.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.