I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

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 lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.