My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

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.

Life is a story. I wake up, it was a sacred dream.

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

Beauty is a horrible power.

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this.

When the iron is hot, strike.

I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?