Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

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.

Get excited about life!

I never said you were my friend. I just didn't have the guts to tell you to leave.

If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

Once you perceive, you pursue. Once you pursue, you receive.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.