I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

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.

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.

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.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

Let us free all the animals in the zoos to show them that we are not animals!

As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.

When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.