If self is a location, so is love.

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.

Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Start with scout locations first.

There is a strong sense of understanding, appreciation, shared responsibility, and trust that unites and motivates the team to work together.

The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they have different styles.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.