The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.