Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.