We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.

To be human means to feel inferior.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.