Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Disco is just jitterbug.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.