Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best.

He sure told you off, huh, Icy?" ~Darcy

The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

The meaning is in the waiting.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.