Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.