I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

I have a dream: That everyone may experience a heaven on earth by their own whim.

Every leader decides accomplishments or values for which he or she wants to be remembered - Jesus was founded upon love

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.

It almost made me long for the flying pig.--Percy

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

When you love someone, you want that person to know that she's is your everything.