Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

A Poet never denies creativity entrance.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren't out to get them.

I don't worry about things I can't control.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.