There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.