Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

You must passionately pursue all your dreams.

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

Hokahey! Today is a good day to die.

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.