I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

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.

And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.