Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Compassion is not something you have

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

You can’t bite your nose off to spite your face.

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.